Things
that are different [peach milkshakes and orange milkshakes;
or Islamic terrorists and Christian fundamentalists]
are not the same. However, things that are different only by degrees
[socialists and communists; or Republicans and
Democrats] are essentially the same.

These
concepts sound simple enough, but some folks don't understand them.
Bible scholars have duped millions of sincere Christians into believing
that modern bibles are the same as the King James Version Bible, despite
their thousands of deletions and word substitutions. Having cast doubt
on the inerrancy of the Scriptures, these scholars make themselves
our moral authority, rather than the Bible. Do you trust them?

Likewise,
education scholars have mesmerized millions of parents into believing
that public schools offer an equal education to all students, despite
their different expectations that require different
academic [and grading] standards supported by different
teaching strategies, which result in different achievement
levels for those students they've labeled
"diverse learners." Moreover, we're told to believe
their Different but Equal policy is not the same as
the old Separate but Equal policy ruled unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court in 1954. Do you believe them?

Do
you remember the transitive property from your junior high days? If
A equals B and B equals C then A
equals C. Evidence suggests they don't teach the transitive
property in middle school anymore. If so, there's a good reason for
it.

Dr.
Mickey Carter, president of Landmark Baptist Bible College, wrote
a book called Things
That Are Different Are Not The Same. The book's title is simpler
than its subject - comparing modern bibles with the KJV. Despite what
the Balaamites
say, they're not the same, but I won't take this time to talk about
the KJV controversy. Let the experts do that. If you'd like more information,
read Dr. Carter's book or Dr. Doug Stauffer's One
Book Stands Alone or Dr. G.A. Riplinger's New
Age Bible Versions.

A
point I make throughout my own book [Legally
STUPiD] is that someone wants to control knowledge, all
knowledge - academic and biblical knowledge. Modern
bibles first slithered their way into our pulpits then our homes in
the 19th century, the same century in which Owen,
Marx and Hegel
preached the infernal blessings of the socialist state, when Darwin
claimed we're not created in the image of God but evolved from scholars,
I mean, lower animals, when Wundt
said we're just complex machines and can thus be programmed
and when Freud
told us we're all motivated by unconscious, perverted desires. The
19th century also gave us compulsory
public education. Do you see a pattern here?

This
essay centers on the Separate but Equal policy declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court through Brown
v. Board of Education (1954). But before we go there, let's look
at the so-called "Reconstruction" of the South following
the Civil War.

With as much objectivity as can be expected from a Southerner, let
me assert that the War of Northern Aggression was never about
ending slavery. It was about changing and expanding slavery.
If you believe otherwise, you need to remember that only one-third
of Southerners owned any slaves. Common sense suggests the other two-thirds
would not give up life and limb to defend somebody else's "property."
Nonetheless, with one fell swoop called the Emancipation
Proclamation, Mr. Lincoln labeled one million Confederate
soldiers as supporters of slavery, forever villainizing Southerners
in the eyes of the world. The great irony of it all is that the proclamation
was issued by a white supremacist!

Likewise,
if you believe the nearly three-million man Yankee army was the instrument
of that beneficent emancipation, you need to study up on General
Sherman's march through Georgia and South Carolina. Uncle Billy
was a consummate racist who had no love for the black man. His white
supremacist attitude was absorbed by his general staff all the way
down to his marauding men, who committed unspeakable crimes against
whites and blacks as justifiable retribution for starting the
war. My Peach State grandparents bequeathed to me their disgust for
Sherman and "Radical
Republicans" with venomous contempt. With absolute certainty,
my grandmother told me it was a "sin" to vote Republican and the man
who said "war is hell" is spending eternity "at war."

The
federal government really had no great affection for the freedmen
although it maintained absolute control over the conquered South with
an occupying army. After the war, the voices of Northern abolitionists
were mostly patronized. Stronger, more powerful, wealthy voices
controlled the federal government, and they had bigger concerns than
what to do with four million supposedly freed slaves. The Confederate
army was no more, but the Union army was as big as ever, with the
bulk of it stationed in the states it ravaged during four bloody years
of war. Remnants of their occupation force are still active in every
former Confederate state, where the largest bases in the U.S. military
still make their permanent home.

Do
you really think the feds needed that much military muscle to enforce
an end to plantation-style slavery? All those troops were part of
bigger plans for a new South, and those plans were centered on compulsory
public schooling. Reconstruction of the South was the prototype for
the re-education of all Americans. As surely as slavery
didn't really end in 1865, Reconstruction didn't end in 1877. The
Union victory not only failed to save our Constitutional Republic,
Reconstruction ensured government by the people had ceased
to exist.

There
is a counter-intuitive myth purported by historical revisionists that
claims the South needed public schools because Southerners
were for the most part illiterate prior to the war. That's an absolute
lie but one that fits well into the scheme of all the
other lies Americans have been conditioned to believe. The radicals
planned to re-educate the South, using Horace Mann's Prussian school
model, claiming they were only looking out for the best interests
of Southerners. Do you really believe that? They hated the South,
every man, woman and child, white or black. Although the war was fought
primarily in the South on the South, nearly 60% of the 620,000
casualties were Northern, something they were not willing to forgive
or forget.

So
why the public school systems? Yes, systems, for it was actually
Northerners who established the separate school systems for white
and freedmen's children.

They
claimed this strategy provided jobs for black educators and a safer,
separate environment for black children. But a mountain of evidence
suggests the South's new benefactors deliberately incited racial tension
by denying former Confederates the right to vote while supporting
freedmen, carpetbaggers
and scalawag
candidates for local and state offices. Then they stepped back and
watched the sparks fly. They did this to distract Southerners from
what they were really doing to both blacks and whites. [Some modern
distraction strategies include Asian bird flu, global warming,
energy crisis and the war on terror.] Despite marshal law
and an occupying army to enforce it, the federal forces did little
to quell Klan violence against black freedmen although they provided
special protection for white carpetbaggers and scalawags. They wanted
Southerners to fight among themselves, so they wouldn't focus their
wrath on them [again].

In
a previous article [Principals of Newspeak],
I said prior to the Civil War, Americans were 95% literate. That figure
included mostly free Americans, North and South. Most slaves
were kept illiterate because, as Frederick
Douglass eloquently explains in his autobiography, education
and slavery are incompatible. Most white Southerners and free
blacks were taught at home, though some in one-room, church-affiliated
school houses. And they were quite literate by today's low standards.
Read a few letters by Confederate soldiers, and you'll see what I
mean.

When
historical revisionists claim the South needed this public
school concept, a concept that was found in a few Unitarian-dominated
New England states, they not only lie, they manipulate the public
to believe one lie in order to get them to believe an even bigger
lie, that public schools help all children learn.

As
noted, Unitarians were the initial force behind the public school
movement. In case you didn't know, Unitarians don't believe Jesus,
the Son of God, is equal to God the Father or God the Holy
Spirit or that either is equal to God the Father. Remember the
transitive property.

Horace
Mann was an Unitarian who received his indoctrination from German
Rationalists [neo-Gnostic Humanists] in Prussia. The Prussian school
model divided schools into three levels in which 1% were
taught to think [upper class], 5% were partially taught
to think [middle class] and 94% were taught just
enough to follow simple instructions [slaves]. This mind-controlling,
slave-producing school model was struggling to survive in New England,
but now it was implemented full-scale on the South by Mann's sister-in-law,
Elizabeth Peabody. Soon, it would become the model for the nation.
Why?! Since America was 95% literate, why did we need public education?

The
answer is that America didn't need public education! The forces behind
what Theodore Roosevelt would later call the "invisible government"
are the ones who needed it. Their reason is obvious. Education
and slavery are incompatible! Americans were too literate,
too independent. That had to change. The South was a great place to
start the re-education process, if only because the South was dominated
by those independent-minded Baptists that North Carolina's
colonial Governor
William Tryon had tried to annihilate 100 years earlier.

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If
you doubt the Baptist influence on the South, please read James Beller's
America in Crimson Red
or William Lumpkin's Baptist
History in the South. Aside from the distinctive that gives us
our name [baptism of believers, not infants], Baptists are known for
our belief in local church autonomy, liberty of conscience
and especially our stand on the Bible as our only moral authority.
That's why the South was called the Bible
Belt. When Southern mothers taught their kids to read, it was
primarily so they could read the Bible. In fact, the Bible was taught
in nearly every Southern home, white or black, free or slave. From
the neo-Gnostic viewpoint of Unitarians and other elitists, the South
was just too literate, academically and biblically. This had
to change.

R.C.
Murray is a disabled veteran and former public school teacher. He left
a good job as a technical writer for a satellite manufacturer in order
to teach high school English, only to immediately be told he could not
expect, much less require his students to read their literature assignments.
After four years of fighting The System and having a stroke then a mini-stroke,
he decided he was safer in the airborne infantry and returned to being
a technical writer for a military contractor.

He
has also dedicated the rest of his life to exhorting parents about what’s
really going on in their local public school, the one they think is a
good school. R.C. Murray is the author of two books, Golden Knights: History
of the U.S. Army Parachute Team and most recently, Legally
STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn’t have to read.